Edward Loure wins leading environmental award after helping communities in Tanzanian Rift Valley secure legal title to ancestral land The Tarangire national park in Tanzania is known for its huge concentrations of wildlife in the dry season,the spectacular annual migrations of its elephants, wildebeest and zebra, and its majestic old baobab trees.
But few people who visit it realise that the 1100 sq mile park was,until colonial times, widely used by pastoralists and hunter-gatherers, or that many of the unique tourist lodges built around it are situated on ancestral lands “grabbed” by government or companies,without compensation, to stimulate money-spinning tourism.
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Source: theguardian.com